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Show CORNELL ATHLETES WIN CHAMPIONSHIP NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Corneirs sturdy athletes once more captured the intercollegiate intercol-legiate cross-coun,try championship in the run ever the course between Pel-ham Pel-ham Manor station and the home of the New York Athletic club on Travers island, in Long Island sound. Five teams, made up of thirty-four runners, representing Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and the University bf Pennsylvania, took part in tho- contest, and of the seven men who carried the Ithacan colors, four finished in the first five places, winning the honor, with a total of twelve points. LL T. Newman of Cornell led the big field during the greater part of the Journey Jour-ney and finished fully fifty yards in front of his teammate, C. E. McGoffln, who in turn was a like distance ahead of W. J Hail of Yale. Nearly 100 yards back of these leaders were D. C. Munson and A. Starr, both of Cornell. The sixth place was won bv C. D. McDonald of Columbia, while W. G. Howard of Harvard Har-vard was seventh and C. R. Major of the University of Pennsylvania eighth. Newman's time (32:32) is 23 seconds Vaster than the time of his college-mate, college-mate, Schutt, made on the same course a little over six miles, a yesr ago. Today's contest was the sixth event of Its kind which has taken place under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Crosscountry Cross-country Association of Amateur Athletes of America, and Cornell has won five times. , . Following Is the result by points: Cornell Cor-nell first, with 12; Pennsylvania second, with 41; Tale third, with 61: Harvard fourth, with 52, and Columbia last, with 73. |